From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 16:01:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714F916A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:01:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from beastie.hyow.eu.org (beastie.hyow.eu.org [213.152.46.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3501743D1D for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:01:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@hyow.eu.org) Received: (qmail 30168 invoked by uid 751); 16 Feb 2005 16:02:43 +0000 Received: from mark@hyow.eu.org by beastie.hyow.eu.org by uid 731 with qmail-scanner-1.22-st-qms Clear:RC:0(10.0.0.11):SA:0(-2.8/5.0):. Processed in 11.364104 secs); 16 Feb 2005 16:02:43 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-HYOW.EU.ORG-Mail-From: mark@hyow.eu.org via beastie.hyow.eu.org X-Antivirus-HYOW.EU.ORG: 1.22-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(10.0.0.11):SA:0(-2.8/5.0):. Processed in 11.364104 secs Process 30162) Received: from deity.hyow.eu.org (mark@hyow.eu.org@10.0.0.11) by beastie.hyow.eu.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 16 Feb 2005 16:02:31 +0000 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:01:14 +0000 From: Mark Magiera To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050216160114.647afdb1.mark@hyow.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20050216061339.GE2900@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215180011.GD38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050215231416.449c8695.mark@hyow.eu.org> <84dead720502151902778f893c@mail.gmail.com> <20050216061339.GE2900@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0-gtk2-20041224 (GTK+ 2.4.14; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:01:20 -0000 On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:13:39 -0800 "David O'Brien" wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:02:07AM +0000, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > > My main, if not only problem is the NIC being so unreliable. > > You may want to upgrade to 5.3-STABLE. > > I installed 5.3-RELEASE on an ASUS K8V (which has the same > > NIC). I kept the following loop running in the background > > > > while :; do > > sleep 20 > > ifconfig sk0 down > > ifconfig sk0 up > > done > > > > this kept the network driver usable while I downloaded > > the -stable tree. > > Great advice. Thanks! Indeed, thank you very much. -stable here I come :)